2292 ARTICLE 10.

1892, ch. 240, sec. 333.

329. The said Commissioners shall have full power to lay out new
streets or roads within said corporate limits, and to straighten, widen or
change existing roads, streets or highways, and they shall be authorized
to do all things necessary to keep such streets, roads or highways within
such corporate limits in good condition, and free from obstruction, and
they may pass ordinances regulating such roads, highways or streets and
imposing fines and forfeitures for obstructing the same. The said corpo-
ration may make arrangements with the County Commissioners of said
county whereby the expense of keeping up said streets or roads may be
paid by the county, and the said County Commissioners shall provide for
the expense of keeping up the county roads or highways which pass
through said town.

1904, ch. 165, sec. 333A.

330. The said Commissioners shall have full power to provide for
laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or closing up, in
whole or in part, any street, lane or alley within the limits of the town
which, in their opinion, the public welfare or convenience may require,
to provide for ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of
damages will be caused thereby, and what amount of benefit will thereby
accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or improvements within
or adjacent to the town for which each owner or possessor ought to be
compensated or ought to pay as compensation, and to provide for assessing
and levving either generally upon the whole assessable property of the
town or specially on the property of persons benefited, the whole or any
part of the amount of damages and expense which they shall ascertain
will be incurred in locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening
or closing up the whole or any part of any street, lane or alley in the town,
and for the collection thereof; to provide for granting appeals to the
Circuit Court for Dorchester County from the decisions of any commis-
sioners whom they are empowered to appoint by ordinance to ascertain
the damage which will be caused or the benefits which will accrue to the
owners or possessors of grounds or straightening or closing, in whole or in
part, any street, lane or alley within the town, and for securing to every
such owner or possessor the right, on application within a reasonable time,
to have decided by jury trial whether any damage has been caused or any
benefit has accrued to him, and to what amount, to provide for collecting
and paying over the amount of compensation adjudged to each person or
investing it, in the discretion of the corporation, in some stock or other-
wise bearing an interest not lower than four per cent, per annum for the
use of any such person who, because of their infancy, absence from the
city, or any other cause, may be prevented from receiving it, before any
street, lane or alley, in whole or in part, shall be so opened, extended, wid-
ened, straightened or closed up; to provide for the collection of the
amounts adjudged to be paid by the owners or possessors who may be
benefited by the opening, widening, extension, straightening or closing up,